There are five reasons the cloud for primary storage is broken. In this on demand webinar, listen as experts from Storage Switzerland and ClearSky Data discuss the challenges of using the cloud for primary storage and how to overcome these challenges. You will have a clear understanding of what kind of primary storage workloads you can put in the cloud and why you should do it.

1. 5 Reasons Primary Cloud Storage is Broken
and How to Fix them
Join us as we explain:
● Why The Cloud is Ideal for Primary Storage
● What The Challenges to Primary Cloud Storage Are
● Why Current Solutions Are Broken and How to Fix Them
On Demand Webinar
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/http://bit.ly/CloudBroken

2. Our Speakers
George Crump is the founder of Storage
Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on
the subjects of big data, solid state storage,
virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.
He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers,
and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined
storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.
He has 25 years of experience designing storage
solutions for data centers across the US.

3. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

4. Our Speakers
Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder, ClearSky Data
For over 20 years Laz Vekiarides has served in key technical
and leadership roles delivering breakthrough technologies to
market. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of
Software Engineering for Dell’s EqualLogic Storage Engineering
group, where he led the development of numerous storage
innovations and established the EqualLogic product line as a
leader in host OS and hypervisor integration. Laz joined Dell
from EqualLogic, which was acquired in early 2008, where he
was a member of the core leadership team – playing a key role
in the company’s early success as a Senior Engineering
Manager and Architect for the PS Series SAN arrays and host
tools. Prior to EqualLogic, Laz held senior engineering and
management positions at several companies.

5. CONFIDENTIAL
The Future of Enterprise Storage
Laz Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder
ClearSky Data

6. Why Would You Want The Cloud For
Primary Storage?
• Primary Storage needs Cloud
Flexibility
• Better ROI than archive / backup
cloud storage
• Business critical workloads are the
most dynamic

7. • The single biggest cloud challenge is latency
• The time it takes for an I/O to get from the data center to
the cloud is measured in milliseconds
• Comparatively a local I/O to even a hard disk based
system is measured in milliseconds
• Bandwidth is not the issue
• It is the limitation on the Speed of Light
• We need Speed of Light 2.0
• But it’s not coming
Waiting On Speed Of Light 2.0

8. The Impact Of Speed Of Light 1.0 On
The Cloud
• The Cloud is used in situations where
latency does not matter
• Backup
• Archive
• Collaboration (to an extent)
• Leaving Primary storage in the dust
• There’s much more opportunity for the cloud that
can’t be tapped into today because of latency
challenges

9. Primary Storage Work Arounds
• Caching appliances
• Appear as a NFS/SMB or iSCSI target
• Local storage performance but cache misses are deadly
• Limited use cases
• Storage Replicators (100% of storage local and in
the cloud)
• Valuable for content distribution
• No cache miss
• Expensive, on-site management
• Band aids for the real problem

10. What IT Wants
• Cloud based storage
economics that respond like
local primary
• Unlimited scale
• Agility to scale up or down
on demand
• Stop paying forward for
storage you don’t use

11. Five Reasons Why Cloud Based
Primary Storage Is Broken
• Speed of Light is a constant
• Long haul connections are unreliable
• Guaranteeing specific performance in a massively
shared environment is almost impossible
• No verification of where primary data actually is
• Work arounds create data protection and on-site
product management problems

12. CONFIDENTIAL 11
ClearSky's global storage network
delivers enterprise storage,
spanning the entire data lifecycle,
as a fully-managed service.

13. CONFIDENTIAL 12
Managed
Cloud
Private
Cloud
The Data Is the Problem
Enterprise
Data Center
Public
Cloud
App
Hybrid Model
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
AppApp App

14. CONFIDENTIAL 13
…you could have the
performance and
availability of this…
What If…
…with the scalability and
economics of this?

15. CONFIDENTIAL 14
Managed
Cloud
Private
Cloud
The ClearSky Network
Enterprise
Data Center
Public
Cloud
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
AppApp App

16. CONFIDENTIAL 15
The ClearSky Solution:
A Global Storage Network
Metro-based
fully managed
service
SLA-guaranteed for
enterprise workloads
Complete lifecycle
management
BackupRecovery
Primary

17. CONFIDENTIAL 16
The ClearSky Solution:
Smart Tiered Caching™
Primary
Storage Warm
Cold
Hot

18. CONFIDENTIAL 17
Next to Your Apps In Your Metro Area Regional
The ClearSky Solution:
Solving the Latency Barrier
Enterprise Data Center
ClearSky Edge Appliance
Enterprise
Apps
Storage Cloud 1
Storage Cloud 2
ClearSky POPs
Distributed & Optimized Storage

19. CONFIDENTIAL 18
The ClearSky Advantage
✓ High Performance
✓ Low Latency
✓ Resilient
✓ Secure
✓ Simple
✓ Better Economics
✓ On-demand Scaling
✓ Minimal Footprint

20. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
ClearSky
http://www.clearskydata.com
ClearSky on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/ClearSkyData
ClearSky on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/c/clearskydata

21. 5 Reasons Primary Cloud Storage is Broken
and How to Fix them
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